"Hilarious and sexy angel"

I am NOT a lover of angelic intervention tales. However, I can happily assure you that Pricilla, the unwilling guardian angel stuck on earth duty, is nothing like Roma Downey in Touched By An Angel. She's a big-haired, self-absorbed gal who spent more time chasing men while alive than she did raising her daughter, and not a lot has changed in the afterlife. She desperately wants to make upper-level status angel so she won't have to render any more good deeds for boring people. But to do so, she has to pull off one last assignment. And it's a doozy.

Brady Campbell's life is a mess and has been since he confessed his affair to his wife Melina, and she tossed him out. He's been letting his construction company go while he drinks himself into a stupor, and he's living in a dive. More to the point, Brady is Pricilla's son-in-law, and she is stuck with unappetizing task of kicking him into shape and back into life. The problem is, they weren't exactly fond of each other in life, and Melina is about to file for divorce. The only thing Brady has going for him is a great body and boyish charm — I kept mentally casting a young Dennis Quaid.

Things don't go too well at Pricilla's first attempt at getting Brady and Melina back together. In fact Brady's appearance at Melina's office is enough to goad her into agreeing to a date with Alvin, the office loser and lech (think Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters) and into actually making an appointment with a lawyer about a divorce. But with Pricilla's help Brady manages to worm his way back into Melina's life and into her bed, where she discovers sex with your ex can be the best kind. And Pricilla learns that she really does care about the child she carelessly neglected while she was alive. But will even divine intervention be enough to make Melina and Brady realize they really do belong together?

Laden with Dakota's patented brand of humor, this book has solid characterizations at its heart. Poor Melina is a perfectionist with a desperate need to settle down and raise a family in order to compensate for the family life she never had. When she can't get pregnant, she turns away from her husband, dealing inwardly with her pain and disappointment until he trips and falls into the arms of a sympathetic Other Woman. Brady isn't a chronic womanizer at all, just a very confused guy who can't figure out why the woman he adores has shut him out. Watching these two stumble back into each other's lives, with the occasional shove from Pricilla, will put a lump in your throat and a smile on your lips. Their love scenes are as hot as July in Texas, Pricilla's home state. You'll also fall for Pricilla, the angel with the biggest hair, the reddest fingernails and the most acerbic sense of humor in heaven.

The story manages to be sweet and funny without ever venturing into artificial sweetener overdose territory, thanks to Prissy's down-home, pull-no-punches comments. Just the right book to curl up with and beat the summertime blues.

Sensuality Rating: Not quite a hot as the fires of hell, but pretty close — straight monogamous sex, including oral (and lots of it).

Reviewed by Gillian Fitzgerald
Courtesy Sensual Romance Reviews
Posted August 14, 2004

Summary

A marriage is ending...

But should it? If two people are meant to be together surely there's some way to ensure that happens. For Melina and Brady Campbell there is. It takes some divine intervention, and a VERY unlikely angel, to set these two on the path they've wandered from, and convince them that "Sex with your Ex" can be the most wonderful thing in the world.